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Young Girl Dies After Vehicle Strikes Bike She was Riding in Bridge City

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Texas State Troopers investigating a fatal collision between a battery-powered dirt bike and a pickup truck in Orange County have identified the young victim as Rilee McGraw, of Deville, Louisiana.

According to DPS, preliminary investigation indicates that on Sunday afternoon around 5 p.m., a 2015 GMC pickup truck driven by 31-year-old Gerald Dyson of Cedartown, Georgia, was leaving the Town and Country RV Park in the 800 block of Lapointe St. near Bridge City, when it collided with the bike that McGraw was riding.

https://www.kjas.com/news/local_news/article_13f1a8a6-e5b4-11ec-af38-abeaaaa1d664.html